Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159286
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159286
- Date first listed:
- 10-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, MAIN STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Croxdale and Hett
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26694 37647
Details
CROXDALE AND HETT MAIN STREET NZ 2637 (North side) Sunder land Bridge 16/67 Church of St. 10/5/67 Bartholomew (formerly listed in Sunderland Bridge C.P.) II Parish church. 1843-6 by George Pickering; north wall demolished and new nave and chancel added 1876-8 by C.H. Fowler. Romanesque style with Decorated Gothic additions. Squared sandstone with dressings and Welsh slate roofs. West tower; original nave (now south aisle), original chancel (now vestry/ organ chamber), added nave and chancel on north. Tower and original nave and chancel have round-arched openings of 2 orders with roll-moulded outer orders on colonnettes with scalloped capitals. 4-stage tower has clasping buttresses on lower stages, south doorway, 2-light belfry windows and parapet on corbel table. Original 3-bay nave has chamfered plinth, flat-buttressed bay divisions, sill and impost bands; single window under hoodmould in each bay; corbel table at eaves of steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. Lower, narrower original 2-bay chancel has similar details, south doorway with zigzag on outer order, paired lights in each bay, single window on buttressed east end and a steeply-pitched roof. Slightly longer and taller added nave and chancel have pointed 2- and 3-light windows, with trefoil-headed lights, similar 5-light east window and steep roofs. Interior: Original north wall replaced 1876 by 5-bay wood arcade to nave and 2-bay pointed stone arcade to chancel. Original semicircular chancel arch of 2 orders, the outer order with zigzag on responds with scalloped capitals. Added nave has arch-braced king-post roof. Added chancel has 1897 Perpendicular- style rood screen and barrel roof. Elaborate crocketed early C19 wood font cover. Some c.1876 stained glass by Clayton and Bell.
Listing NGR: NZ2669437647
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109948
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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